McDonalds, when populations increase they eat more McDonalds - Dividend Machine for the week of October 22, 2012.
McDonalds, symbol MCD,
has been on my radar many times in past decades. However, once I started using my very
specific dividend machine criteria, MCD did not show up as the first dividend machine I found with my screen until this
week. Like MSFT, McDonald’s price was
too high or the dividend too low to qualify as a bona fide dividend
machine. Recently, McDonald’s qualified
on every other dividend criteria except yield and now we have the dividend
yield greater than 3%.